Newbuildings Place
Newbuildings Place, Dragons Green Road, RH13 8GQ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1180744
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Newbuildings Place
- Statutory Address:
- Newbuildings Place, Dragons Green Road, RH13 8GQ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1180744
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Newbuildings Place
- Statutory Address 1:
- Newbuildings Place, Dragons Green Road, RH13 8GQ
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Newbuildings Place, Dragons Green Road, RH13 8GQ
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- West Sussex
- District:
- Horsham (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Shipley
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 14072 24467
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 8 February 2022 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
TO 12 SW
15/474
SHIPLEY
DRAGONS GREEN ROAD
Newbuildings Place
(Formerly listed as OLDHOUSE LANE (off) Newbuildings Place)
22. 9.59
I
Built in late C17, probably in 1683, by Philip Caryll, whose family owned the estate from 1609 to 1752. Two storeys, attic and basement above ground level. Five windows. Two gabled dormers. Built of stone, quarried on the estate, with red brick dressings and rusticated quoins. Two parallel ranges, each with shaped Dutch gable ends and chimney breasts at each end. Horsham slab roof. Central two-storeyed projection with shaped gable containing porch with round-headed doorway and room over. Casement windows with wooden mullions and transoms and small square panes. Small modern bays on ground floor with hoods of Horsham slabs. Modern ground floor addition of three windows at north end with L-wing of two storeys to north-west. The original kitchen and cellars are stone-vaulted.
The Caryll family were Roman Catholics, and the house contains several priest-holes. In the late C19 and early C20 the house belonged to Wilfred Scawen Blunt, author, poet, traveller and breeder of Arab horses, who lived and died here and is buried in the grounds behind the house. The building still contains the William Morris tapestry and furniture that Blunt had made for it.
Very unusual Sussex house with interesting historical assications.
Listing NGR: TQ1407224467
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 299526
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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